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Being a potter is the giving and receiving of thanks. My pottery is about food presentation. It is made to bring foods to light. While function is a primary consideration, mood is of greater importance. I try to create atmosphere with my tableware. Considerations about mood or atmosphere contribute to the overall look and feel of my pieces. Ideas come easily, but meaning seems to come in layers over decades of time. It is meaning that gives strength to good ideas. I hope that my ideas have grown with my skills.

I am concerned with ritual as well. Rituals uncover the basic values, aims and attitudes of a people. I am half Sicilian and half Cajun, whose cultures are wrought with superstitions. Throw in a Catholic upbringing and I have rituals dancing all about me. Cooking has given me an avenue to explore and create my personal rituals. I began to cook when I was a teenager, and it has been a strong, sustaining interest in my life.

Currently I am interested in the notions of hospitality. Hospitality, which means to give and to receive. I view pottery as a vehicle of hospitality, because a pot gives and receives simultaneously; it is both host and guest.

I think about things like:

Food- which foods are chosen from those available; how they are prepared; with whom, and when they are eaten; and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating. Food is one of the means by which society creates itself, and acts out its aims and functions.

How do I, as a maker of tableware, direct the theater of dining? This is where I believe I have some ability to give something to society. Here I become the host and the guest. By thinking about foods as identity, as our physical selves, as a way of thought, as sex, as power, as friendship, as a medium of magic and witchcraft, as our time controller, I see food as the root culture: that which gives meaning to our lives.

I hope my ideas about dining will shape and dramatize the rituals surrounding food. I want my tableware to embody the unspoken assumptions of my heritage and culture.

-- Silive Granatelli, 2007

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RESUME

Education

1971 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
1975 MFA, Montana State University

Professional Experience

1982-09   Studio Potter, Floyd, VA
1987-99   Adjunct Professor Instructor, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
1982-83   Instructor of Ceramics & Director of Ceramics Apprenticeship Program, Berea College, Berea, KY
1979-82   Resident Potter, Berea College, Berea, KY
1976-79   Studio Potter, Athens, GA
1975   Instructor of Ceramics, Extension Program, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
1975   Instructor of Ceramics, Extension Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Grants

1995 Virginia Museum Fellowship

Collections

In the Collections of...
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA

Workshops

2008   City of Orlando Families, Parks, and Recreation Department
2008   Red Lodge Clay Center Red Lodge MT
2007   North Country Studio Workshop, Bennington College, Bennington VT
2007   Shakerag Workshop, Sewanee, TN
2007   Arrowmont School for Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
2007   La Meridiana, Certaldo Italy
2006   Jacksonville Center for the Arts, w/ Ellen Shankin, Floyd, VA
2006   MudFire Pottery Center, Atlanta GA
2006   Pocosin Arts, Columbia, NC
2006   "Pottery and the Foods of France", Cordes sur Ciel, France
2006   Mudfire Clayworks and Pottery Center, Decatur, GA
2005   Hambage Center, GA
2005   Julie Olson Workshop, Cary, NC
2005   Presenter at NCECA Conference, Baltimore, MD
2005   "The Italian Table" Workshop, La Meridiaba, Italy
2004   Lee Art Center, Arlington, VA
2004   Watershed Workshop, Conference on the Business of Crafts
2004   Old Church Cultural Center, Demerest, NJ
2004   Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2004   Carolina Clay Workshop, Greensboro, NC
2004   Terra Incognito Workshop, Chicago, IL
2003   Penland School for Crafts, Penland, NC
2003   Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2003   St Louis Community College, St Louis, MO
2002   University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2002   Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
2002   Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2001   Wichita State University, KS
2001   Sertoma Art Center, Raleigh92nd Street Y, New York, NY

Publications

2008   “The Potter’s Life: Deeply Invested,” Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August
2007   “Sharing My Studio,” The Studio Potter, Winter 2007-08
2007   NCECA Demonstration Artist Series DVD
2007   Lark Books: Ceramic Surface Design, Maureen E. Mills.
2007   Lark Books: The Masters: Porcelain. Richard Burkett
2007   Lark Books: 500 Animals in Clay
2006   The Reach of 16 Hands”, March 2006 Ceramics Monthly
1990   University of Tennessee, Clay Times, December, Excerpts from a workshop

Exhibitions

2008   “From One Hand to Another” Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro NC
2008   “Just Desserts” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA
2008   “Members of 16 Hands,” Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale CO
2008   “16 Hands Show” Lynchburg Acadamy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg VA
2008   “PotPOURri: Pots That Pour,” Clay Art Center, Port Chester NY
2008   “16 Hands,” Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge MT
2008   Walter Hyleck: 40 Years of Ceramics Leadership at Berea and Beyond: A Jurried Exhibition, Berea College, Berea KY
2008   “Cedar Creek Gallery National Teapot Show VIII”, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor NC
2007   “Botanical” Santa Fe Clay, Santa FE NM
2007   “Eat With Your Eyes” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN
2007   “The Cup Show”, Dow Studio, Deer Isle, ME
2007   “Table Tops”, Long Beach Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Love Ladies, NJ
2007   “Plates and Platters: Salon Style”, Harrison Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2007   “Dinnerworks”, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2007   “:Yunomis”, AKAR Design, Iowa City, IA
2006   “30x5”, AKAR Design, Iowa City, IA
2006   “Style and Function”, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC
2006   “Craft: Tradition and Use”, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
2006   “Potluck”, Penland Design Gallery, Burnsville, NC
2007   “;St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, St. Croix Valley, MN
2007   “La Mesa”, Santa Fe Clay, Louisville, KT
2007   “Cups Coming Together”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2006   “Tea Pot Show”, Spruce Creek Gallery, Nellysford, VA
2007   “From the Earth”, University of Kentucky Museum of Art, Lexington, KY
2007   “Ladies in White”, NCECA Exhibition, Louisville, KY
2006   “Teapot”, University of Miami, Miami, FL
2006   “32nd Annual Potter Show and Sale, Demarest”, Demarest, NJ
2006   MudFire Clayworks Gallery, “Tea Pots A-Go-Go”, Atlanta GA
2006   “100 Tea Pots” , The Signature Shop & Gallery, Atlanta GA
2006   “Tea time: Art of the Tea Pot”, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2006   Two person show with Ron Myers, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmore, NC
2006   Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. "30/30"
2005   Watkins Gallery, Northampton, MA. "Soup to Nuts"
2005   John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI. "Fill it to the Rim"
2005   Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO. Potters of the Southern Mountains"
2005   Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC. "Hot/Ice"
2005   Santa Fe Clay, Santa De, NM. "The Box", "White", and "Cups, Cups, Cups"
2005   A Natural Touch, in conjunction with the NCECA Conference
2005   Mid-Atlantic Artists, Whitehall Gallery, Annapolis, MD (in conjunction w/ NCECA)
2005   Setting the Table, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004   Salt and Pepper Show, Odyssey, Asheville, NC
2004   Solo Show, Terra Incognito, Chicago, IL
2004   Butter Dish Show, Odyssey, Asheville, NC
2004   Preserve Penland Show, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2004   Gas Fired/Wood Fired, East Tennessee State
2004   Tea for Two, Museum of Art and Design, Louisville, KY
2003   Two person Show, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmore, NC
2003   16 Hands at Squires Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2002   Old Church Cultural Center, Demerest, NJ
2002   Hot/Ice III: Teapots & Pitchers, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
2002   Beyond 2001: Current Artists of Archie Bray Fdn, Cube at Beco,Kansas City, MO
2002   Faculty Exhibit: Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2002   National Teapot Show IV, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmore, NC
2002   Resident Scholarship Fund Benefit Auction, Archie Bray, Helena, MT
2002   Regarding Clay: NCECA Benefit Auction, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
2001   American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Cent
2001   Strictly Functional, Market House Craft Center, PA
2001   KCAI Auction: A Celebration of Artists, KCAI, MO
2000   Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
2000   Couplets: Duality in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2000   William King Regional Arts Center, "Community in Clay: Four Floyd County Potters."
2000   Instructors' Exhibition, Odyssey, Asheville, NC
2000   25th Anniversary Cup Show, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000   Instructors' Exhibition, Greenwich House Pottery, New York